Example sentences of "could [verb] [pron] from [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But overall , it was by turning to their own bodies that women artists could free themselves from surrealist stereotypes . |
| 2 | Lynsey was researching a project on how women could defend themselves from potential rapists and sex attackers and planning a BBC documentary on the subject . |
| 3 | ‘ Maybe we could suspend them from this bit in the middle with a length of thread , ’ Norris grunted , sticking his head almost right inside the appliance . |
| 4 | so we could take it from that stage even |
| 5 | Er , to start off with they do the full spiritual exercise of Ignatius Loyal all takes thirty days in silent retreat with a with an individual er under individual guidance with a , with a , a director or it could take anything from nine months to eighteen months to do in er day da da da living in open sort of retreat . |
| 6 | If fully exploited , wind power could produce anything from 20 to 50 per cent of the nation 's electricity needs , its supporters claim . |
| 7 | Nor did she think she could hide anything from this man with the golden eyes . |
| 8 | One of the reasons we developed a design-led retail business , offering our own unique products , was because we saw we could distance ourselves from other retailers who were just selling manufacturers ' products and discounting them and getting into constant competitive battles . |
| 9 | Alternatively , the future may bring chemicals that could protect us from any gas , liquid or radiation , not to mention environments in which future generations may live that will separate them from any hazardous source . |
| 10 | If I could lead you from that paragraph on page three fifty over to page three six four page three six four , one two three , four paragraphs from the top it 's ab it 's the second of two paragraphs that begins the Board affirms the church 's th that Christ teaches that marriage is special and divorce is not the way he would wish for his people and then this sentence no-one would wish to condens condemn someone to stay in a marriage which is beyond redeeming . |
| 11 | If I could just get a role doing some of the falls in the action replays , say , I could save him from horrible injury , or at least the odd booking . |
| 12 | Yet , of course , electric heating remained attractive to consumers ( most of whom by then had fires or , if the Boards refused to sell them , could obtain them from other shops ) . |
| 13 | We could get one from British Section could n't we ? |
| 14 | The latter suggest the presence of several wealthy inhabitants , principally in the third and fourth centuries , but the individual examples could represent anything from rural establishments to official residences . |